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School building council sits first test
The British Council for School Environments is to hold its inaugural summit on Monday in what many see as the first test of the organisation’s effectiveness.
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Contractors asked to find ways of cooling down Tube
Costain, Balfour Beatty and Morgan Est invited to tender for work on 140-year-old problem
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ISG Totty secures £5.3m Walsall hotel contract
Construction group will start building Express by Holiday Inn for Bodfari in early October
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UCATT protests at Berkeley ‘refusal to grant site access’
Union says housebuilder stopped investigation of complaints at Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth
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NewsPFI team to own land for 150 years
The consortium behind the £2bn Colchester Garrison contract will retain ownership of the land for 150 years, even though its contract with the Ministry of Defence will last only 35 years.
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Favourites emerge in race to replace Abadie as PFI tsar
Outgoing chief praised for linking private and public sectors, but lacked media savvy
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Sustainability
A building with more than 7000 solar panels and the latest in hemp insulation feature in this weeks Specifier.
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Balfour Beatty cements its dominance of UK contracting
Scottish company completes triple in contracting league tables
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Dodds plans Kier exit strategy
John Dodds, the 61-year-old chief executive of Kier Group, has rebutted speculation that he will shortly step down, saying he “will be around in 12 months’ time for the next results”.
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FeaturesThe subtle art of regime change
New construction chiefs seeking to stamp their authority on a firm by overhauling it do so at their peril. Staff can be alienated as much as inspired, quite apart from what the outgoing boss thinks …
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CommentDisappearing acts
This week, champagne-soaked yachters see Mace ‘lose a man overboard’, guests at a RMJM bash trail away like smoke, Colin Harding doesn’t disappear after all, and we find out what happened to page 68
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Levy could threaten housing growth, says study
The government could undermine its own housing growth plans in south-east England if it introduces the planning gain supplement, a report warns this week.
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Regeneration sector hit by recruitment and retention crisis
Some regeneration bodies are retaining staff for as little as a year, as the sector struggles with a recruitment crisis.
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NewsA bonfire of the quangos
Home front — The polarised debate about merging regeneration agencies is missing the point
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FeaturesCalatrava swoops on Belgium
The architect–engineer is topping a Liège train station with yet another astonishing roof
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NewsTaken as red
The Office for Subversive Architecture collective has unveiled this image of a temporary structure built on top of a new gallery in Liverpool, called Greenland Street.
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NewsFrom the ashes
The derelict Imperial Tobacco HQ in south Bristol, the first British building by US architect Skidmore Owings & Merrill, is to be turned into sustainable flats and live-work units by developer Urban Splash.
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FeaturesBlair’s last lap
With Tony Blair fast running out of time to tackle the policy issues of central concern to the construction industry, Building spoke to 10 of its leading figures to see what they want from Blair before he goes. Or will it be left to Gordon Brown to take the baton ...